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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Ryūkakuji Kofungun Alternative Name: 龍角寺古墳群, Ryukakuji KofungunCountry: Japan
NOTE: This site is 12.487 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Narita (Chiba pref.) Nearest Village: Ōtake 大竹
Latitude: 35.818300N Longitude: 140.275530E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Barrow Cemetery in Honshū. In a historical park called Bōsō-no-Mura(房総のむら), more than 100 tumuli are preserved with a museum and reconstructed wooden houses of Samurai period.
The tumulus no.101 in a round shape is reconstructed with tube, human and animal-shaped 'haniwa's.
A haniwa is a pottery model set in the ground at the site of a burial mound. These figures would have stood with others in a protective circle around the tomb-mound of a powerful ruler. Read more at the British Museum
Location: Just 10km from Narita International Airport. The timetable of the bus to the park is not so frequent but the 30min hike from Shimōsa Manzaki (下総松崎) station is agreeable.
房総のむら= Old village in Bōsō peninsula
Note: See Aska's other recent contributions for more barrows from this area of Japan
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